This week I was reading about the partial collapse of a railing on the Pont des Arts in Paris, due to the enormous weight of padlocks clipped to the fence. In 2008, couples started locking padlocks with their initials to the bridge, then throwing the keys in the Seine below, to signify their love couldn’t be broken. It reminded me I hadn’t done a link love round up for a while, so here are some great posts and articles I’ve loved over the past month or so. Enjoy!
Image via ClaudeAttard/Flickr (with a little PicMonkey magic by moi!)
RUNNING
I needed this reminder: Secrets of Success: 8 Reasons You Should Take a Break After Racing – from Fuel Your Future With Tina
Great tips in this guest post by Jill Conyers on Nicole’s blog: Training for a Goal Race – from Work in Sweats Mama
Marcia’s coach shared some good tips: How to Return to Running After Injury or Illness – from The Healthy Slice
Safety Reminder: It’s Not Okay to Grab Me: Safety Tips For Female Runners – from You Signed Up For WHAT?
Eric uses his GoPro to video all his races – check out this video of the Brooklyn Half! So cool: Video: 2014 NYRR Brooklyn Half – from Dirty Old Sneakers
Loved this – Kim ran with her 13 year old son in his first half marathon: Hunter’s first Half Marathon and Our First Trail Race – from Day With KT
What do you think? Now We’re Questioning Encouragement? – from Olive to Run
You need to take it easy sometimes: Why Every Run Shouldn’t Be Fast – from Marathons and Macarons
Some good tips on running with a stroller: 5 Stroller/Kid Running Tips – from Mom’s Little Running Buddy
Loved this story of a woman who started a running club at her daughter’s elementary school: Friday FITspiration: Giving Back to Running – from Runladylike
FOOD
Yum! Macadamia nuts are way more popular in Australia, but worth finding here: Healthy White Chocolate and Macadamia Oatmeal Pudding – from The Big Man’s World
Smoothie fan? Pie fan? Apple Pie Smoothie – from Happy Fit Mama
SALADS!! Some great recipes: A Collection of Summer Salads – from Bendiful Blog
Whole foods for the win! No One Gets Addicted to Lettuce – from VitaTrain4Life
These include chocolate, coffee and cream cheese. I rest my case. Black Bottom Cupcakes – from The Lean Green Bean
HEALTH, HAPPINESS and FUN STUFF
A potentially life-saving reminder for outdoors runners: Connecting The Dots – from Deb Runs
Emma is a smart cookie and I agree with every word of this: Stop Starving Yourself! – from Be Mom Strong
How to improve bone health: Why High-Impact Exercise Is Good for Your Bones – from NYTimes Well
How do you find inspiration? Trust the process / The journey is hard – from Love Life Surf
Unfortunately, I think this includes instagram filters 😉 Photoshop – Harmless Fun or Loaded Gun? – from Food & Nonsense
I wish I’d thought of a restaurant registry when I was getting married! Wedding do or don’t: Restaurant registry – from A Cup of Jo
Super cool – you plug in either when you want to wake up (and it gives you your ideal bedtime) or when you want to go to bed (and it tells you when you should wake up): sleepyti.me bedtime calculator
FITNESS
I love how Susan is always trying (and conquering and mastering!) things she was afraid to try: Yoga: Fear, Ego and Practice – from Simply Modern Dance
Don’t stick to steady state if you want to change your body composition: Why Steady State Cardio for Fat Loss Is a Bad Decision – from Breaking Muscle
Another good one from one of my favorite sites: Why I Love the Medicine Ball and You Should, Too – from Breaking Muscle
Sweating buckets (or not at all) doesn’t mean much about how hard you’re working out: All About Sweat – from Strong Brees
Jessi started CrossFit a few weeks back and here’s her take: Things I Feel and Have Learned at CrossFit – from Tasty Table Topics
PARENTHOOD
I’m always curious to read other parents’ lists of baby must-haves: Top 6 Baby Things – from idlehide
This guest post by Nicole is funny (and true!): 5 Ways Motherhood is Like Being an Elite Athlete – from Jill Conyers | Fitness, Health & Happiness
Lots of mamas revealing their parenting ‘fails’: No Mother Is Perfect. No Sh*t – from VitaTrain4Life
Celebrate your fierce: Parents are badasses, too. We’re just too distracted to notice. – from this & these
Love this – Lynda had a novel reason for having her kids walk to school recently! 🙂 That’s It We Are Having Office Hours – from Fitnessmomwinecountry
BLOGGING TIPS
Carla always has great Pinterest tips for bloggers: Pinterest Tips and Tricks to Drive Blog Traffic – from Real Into
Do you have Google Analytics? Have you ever actually used it, rather than just look at stats? 3 Actionable Tips to Improve Your Blog with Google Analytics – from Blog Genie
Should you have an email sign-up for your blog? Email Subscription to Blog Posts: Why or Why Not – from Sweet Miles
I love PicMonkey and this is a cool new addition – you can now use your own fonts through their site: Now Serving: All the Fonts in the Galaxy – from The PicMonkey Blog
So awesome – Melissa has a list of every single app, plug-in, theme, website, any kind of resource she uses to run her blog. Really helpful info: The Ultimate Guide to Blogging Resources – from Blog Clarity
SHAMELESS PLUGS OF MY OWN
I wrote a guest post on raising a city kid for Nicole (my husband said it’s his favorite thing I’ve written): City Kids – from Mama Work in Sweats
This post I wrote for Kelly was on how mamas can let go of comparison (my mother-in-law liked this one): The fine line between aspiration and comparison – from New Leaf Wellness
I contributed to another one of Eli’s 6 Words posts: An Ode to High Blood Pressure, in 6 Words – from Coach Daddy
Here are my latest posts for Working (Out) Mama on The Stir:
8 Active Stretches to Make You Feel Amazing After Your Workout
The One Word That’s Ruining Your Workout
I was also quoted in an article on The Stir – The REAL Reason You’re Not Losing Weight Even Though You’re Exercising as well as contributing some exercise suggestions for Adriana Velez for this challenge: My 7-Day Core Workout Challenge Had an Unexpected Effect on Me
PHEW!!
Have you (or part of your railing) collapsed under the weight of all this link love?
Read any awesome posts lately? Share them in the comments.
Do you recommend any good, smart personal training type blogs? I’m always checking out Breaking Muscle, but would love other recommendations.
Thanks so much for featuring my post, and I feel even more honored it is the first one 🙂 You have some great articles there that I have not seen, looking forward to reading them….and do not apologize about plugging your own, you are a great writer, and we need to make sure we did not miss any of your posts 🙂
Tina Muir recently posted…Secrets to Success; Suspension System Exercises
You’re so sweet! And I love your posts, you have such great info for runners!!
I feel like a celebrity! I made the list twice? woot woot!!! Thanks so much Carly and also for ALL the other links. I spied quite a few I missed while away. I have a lot of great reading ahead of me 🙂
Allie recently posted…VITA AdVentures Abroad: World Championship Duathlon, Spain
Um, you’re a celebrity because you raced for TEAM USA!!
Great links! I love the various categories! … thanks for sharing such a great round up.
Cori @ olivetorun.com recently posted….confessions. #dontdothisathome
I love me some categorization…. 😉
I have some serious reading to do! These all look great! And I love that you categorized them…you’re so awesome!
Annie Brees recently posted…Deload Week Is On The Horizon
What can I say, I like to be organized!! ha ha
Wow – what an incredible list of articles!!!
Thank you so much for sharing my post about Hunter’s race!!!
I have read many of the links here but still saw quite a few that I can’t wait to check out – thanks for putting all this together!!!
Kim recently posted…An Appointment with Myself
I loved your post on Hunter’s race!! Such an amazing experience for you to run with him on his first half (and kind of hysterical that neither of you realized how hardcore the course was!) 😉
This is an awesome list and not just saying that because you included me! thank you! I can’t believe that the railing partially collapsed.
Christine @ Love, Life, Surf recently posted…9 Favorite Photo Editing Apps
You’re welcome! I know, the locks are such a cool idea, but I think they’re cracking down on it now.
Thanks for the link love! This is an awesome list of links! I can’t believe that the locks are weighing down the bridge rail! I still need to put my lock on there! 🙂
Heidi @ Idlehide recently posted…5 Signs You’re Officially A Parent
You’re welcome, friend!! 🙂 Go to Paris now, while Tate is still free to fly!!!!
I heard about that railing! I think they are going to start clipping the locks, which is kind of sad.
Great list of links! There are definitely a bunch here I want to check out!
Britt@MyOwnBalance recently posted…It’s a . . .
I know, it is sad, but I’d rather have the beautiful bridges intact! I think they’re looking for somewhere people can clip their locks that doesn’t affect the bridges.
These are all so great!!! I have read a lot of them, but several I have not yet and look forward to! Thanks!!!!
Jen@milesandblessings recently posted…Run by effort not by Garmin
I think we all read a core group of blogs! 🙂 Hopefully you’ll find a couple of new, awesome blogs here!
thanks for the link love!!
Lindsay @ The Lean Green Bean recently posted…Peach Cobbler Smoothie
You’re welcome!
Thanks for the link love! Lots to catch up on.
Angela @ happy fit mama recently posted…My First (& Second) Stitch Fix
You are so welcome! Hopefully you found a few new posts/blogs. 🙂
What an awesome roundup! I’ve enjoyed many of these but there are still so many great reads to go. Thanks for the article shout!
Marcia recently posted…Hump Day Randoms and a Winner
You’re welcome! Please thank your coach, too. 🙂
Thanks so much for sharing my post about CrossFit! 🙂 <3
No worries, Jessi! I loved it.